IMHO Intentional communities powered by crypto is the way forward. Crypto people tend to spend their time tapping away at screens developing all these fancy software governance protocols but 99% of such protocols don't govern anything worth governing.

Humans are physical creatures that need food and shelter. I think step 1 of cryptocurrency protocols should be governing the production of, and access to food, and shelter.

In this respect, I like the closer.earth platform, they try to apply cryptocurrency to managing real world resources:

https://closer.earth/

It's hard to determine the direction of future software development, if you're not using the software to coordinate the production of goods that people value - which is why I'm a massive advocate for applying cryptocurrency/decentralised protocols to intentional communities.